Calories:
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CHALLENGES:
Did I start the day in my planner instead of online?
Did I only check email when I was ready to write back immediately?
Did I only check a site once, then done with it?
Did I check “Current Targets” if I caught myself wasting time?
Did I prioritize books/good learning instead of mindless surfing?
Did I keep surfing under 60 minutes for the day?
Did I make war on procrastination?
Did I act on my key habit for the day?
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END OF DAY:
What are my key life goals? Spend 5 minutes on this.
Expenses for the day (estimate)?
Cash gotten or worked towards today:
What did I do right to move me towards my goals?
What would I do differently if I had the day to live over?
Plan tomorrow:
Make a request of my subconscious:
Set alarm:

Here was my next attempt to evolve. The big changes were adding in cycles and consolidating some points that were either happening automatically, or could be grouped into one line.

Surfing/wasting time:
Transit/dead time:
--> Subtotal Bad:
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ANALYSIS:
Did I do the Cycle Plan? What did I do right to move me towards my goals? What would I do differently if I had the day to live over?

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END OF DAY:
What are my key life goals? Spend 5 minutes on this.
Expenses for the day (estimate)?
Email in box, end of day:
Cash gotten or worked towards today:
Plan tomorrow:
Make a request of my subconscious:
Time complete:

The good about the change -

1. Look at how much more compact it is. Here's the old start of day routine -

Surfing/wasting time:
Transit/dead time:
--> Subtotal Bad:
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ANALYSIS:
Did I do the Cycle Plan? What did I do right to move me towards my goals? What would I do differently if I had the day to live over?

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END OF DAY:
What are my key life goals? Spend 5 minutes on this.
Expenses for the day (estimate)?
Email in box, end of day:
Cash gotten or worked towards today:
Plan tomorrow:
Make a request of my subconscious:
Time complete:

It's looking good for the short term.

Again, I'll remind you that you should never start tracking more than 3-5 things at once. If you're new to this and want to try it out, you might want to start by reading the evolution post to see how the practice develops, or watching the intro to time tracking videos I made for someone asking how it was done.

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Updated my daily tracking template since v5. The basic idea is, I fill this out every day - it doesn't take that much time, and I get a heck of a lot out of it.

If you're new to the site, you might want to check out "The Evolution of My Time/Habit/Life Tracking" which describes the basic idea of what's going on here, and "Two Videos on How to Do Time Tracking" if you're looking to try this out yourself.

This post will mostly look at the differences between this one and my last version, so start with Evolution or those videos if you're new to this.

My goal is to sit 1000 hours of meditation in 1 year. Accounting for holidays and days when my schedule won't permit, I'm working to a schedule of 3 hours per day. The 3 hours per day will be broken down into 7 sessions of 25 minutes each - 4 sessions in the morning before work, and 3 sessions in the evening. It's an ambitious target, and may require some adjustments (e.g. fewer sessions during work-days and making up for it at the weekend). This blog will be my way of tracking progress in terms of hours logged and noting thoughts and observations about zazen itself. My belief is that meditation is one of the most important and useful things one can do for oneself. I'll expand on that idea later.

This morning I woke up at 7am and did 2 sessions of 25 minutes. It's a good start, and I'll make up the extra 2 sessions at lunch time today.